—Rev. O. D. Crawford, who has this summer had the supervision of the erection of the new church at Mobile and of the Whitin Hall at New Orleans, has resigned his pastorate at Mobile because of the incompatibility of that climate with the health of his family. He will be greatly missed upon the field. He will return to some pastoral charge at the North.
—Theological students, who have been supplying churches during the vacation, have now returned to their studies—Rev. S. N. Brown, from Florence, Ala., where he participated in a revival, to the Fisk University; Rev. F. G. Ragland, from Mobile, to Talladega; Rev. J. R. McLean, from Savannah, to Talladega.
—The A. M. A. has appointed Rev. J. C. Fields to labor for one year as an evangelist among the churches at the South. For the last year and a half he has labored in this capacity, much to the satisfaction of the churches. He will supply the church at Mobile for a time.
THE INDIANS.
A VISIT TO FORT SULLY INDIAN MISSION.
BY REV. C. O. BROWN.
We had anticipated it with keenest interest, and Providence favored us. A delightful morning of the first week in August smiled on our programme, when our party of four persons was ready for the carriage ride from Pierre to the mission,—Rev. S. Norton, pastor of the Congregational Church of Pierre; Mr. J. Kimball, of Huron, Dakota, missionary of the American Sunday-school Union; Timothy Hudson, Esq.; and the writer, of Kalamazoo, Mich.
The scenery for the first six miles, from the heights which border the Missouri River, was most charming. At our left, and beneath us, was the river and its narrow strip of foliage and bottom lands, having here and there a picturesque dotting of Indian tents; beyond that, westward turned the grass-covered hills; to our right were the boundless prairies, beautifully variegated with cultivated squares of green and golden grain and settlers’ homes.